Cabinet Minister Wei Shiming and Zuo Du Yushi Li Yuanzheng walked quickly towards the Yellow River embankment where the problem occurred.
This is nine kilometers downstream of Jiningfu Reservoir and the first turning point of the new Yellow River channel.
The river water released from Jiningfu Reservoir will hit the Yellow River embankment here immediately.
The Yellow River embankment here is extremely important. Once the embankment breaks, it will submerge less than half of Shandong.
When Wei Shiming thought of this, he broke into a cold sweat.
There are serious problems with the quality of the Yellow River embankments here.
If they had not discovered it, once the new Yellow River channel was officially introduced to the Yellow River water, it would cause the embankment to collapse in one day.
If this situation really happened, Wei Shiming could not imagine how angry His Majesty the Emperor would be.
The life of the relevant official is in danger. He is responsible for inspecting the Yellow River embankment and will bear joint liability and his official career will be cut off.
When Wei Shiming thought of this, he became extremely angry at the corrupt officials and black-hearted businessmen who had taken action against the Yellow River Embankment.
They came to a large pit where many people were gathered.
Wei Shiming leaned down to check the situation on the Yellow River embankment and the scene in the pit.
When Song Wenjie saw Wei Shiming leaning down, he immediately lit the carbide lamp in his hand, and a beam of bright light shone into the pit, allowing people to see clearly what was going on in the pit.
Wei Shiming looked at the big pit and took a breath of cold air.
He had been mentally prepared before. The quality of the Yellow River embankment in Shandong was poor, and it was likely that some places would need to be reinforced.
He couldn't imagine that the businessmen who built the Yellow River embankment were so courageous.
The Yellow River embankment that should have been filled with concrete was not even filled with rammed earth, let alone concrete.
Inside the hole is stinking, completely dried mud.
Wei Shiming said angrily: "This section of the Yellow River embankment is a veritable shoddy project.
I don't even need professional knowledge. I can tell at a glance that this Yellow River embankment is not capable of withstanding floods.
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The normal flow of water in the Yellow River during the rainy season can destroy this embankment.
There is only a thin layer of concrete outside the Yellow River embankment, which is filled with silt from the river.
Although the mud is dry, I can still see clearly that there are fish bones and grass roots in the mud.
He who fills things with mud knows nothing.
After the silt dried up and sank, it was unable to support the top, and many cavities were formed in the embankment.
No wonder burying telephone poles can directly dig a big hole in the Yellow River embankment.
As long as the water breaks through the outer layer of concrete, the embankment will collapse in an instant. "
Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, saw the Yellow River embankment and said angrily: "This is a scumbag project.
These people also have certain means. They can put a concrete shell on the outside to make the Yellow River embankment last for a period of time.
In this way, they have the opportunity to get the final payment, and as soon as the money is obtained, they will immediately flee to other places.
The Yellow River Embankment is a project related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen dare to take action.
No matter who is involved this time, I must bring all these people to justice. "
After Li Yuanzheng and Wei Shiming had a brief discussion, they split up.
Li Yuanzheng led the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to strictly investigate the contractors who built this section of the Yellow River embankment, as well as the yamen at all levels responsible for supervision.
The first thing he did when he led the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was to take over the entire Jining Prefecture Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The Yellow River embankment project has turned into a shoddy project, and the Jining Prefectural Procuratorate has an unshirkable responsibility.
Li Yuanzheng also has an important task: to find out how many shoddy projects are involved in the Yellow River Project?
The censor's speed in questioning officials is many times faster than the experts from the Ministry of Industry who inspect the Yellow River embankment inch by inch.
Wei Shiming was responsible for commanding on the Yellow River embankment and thoroughly inspecting the Yellow River embankment in Shandong.
After finding out all the shoddy projects to prevent the new channel of the Yellow River from diverting water.
The good governance that took the court several years to complete turned into a harmful and harmful governance due to some corrupt officials.
Wei Shiming watched as migrant workers were hired to completely demolish the problematic Yellow River embankment.
This was the first time Wei Shiming had seen the poor quality of this shoddy project.
He has seen many projects that cut corners and cut corners, and here in Jining Prefecture, it was the first time he saw a project that didn't even use materials.
To say it is a shoddy project is to praise this project.
After several days of cleaning, Wei Shiming also got the results.
This shoddy project must be completely cleaned up, as it has no value in reinforcement.
Fortunately, it is only a bend of less than one kilometer, so the reconstruction will not require much work.
Wei Shiming also got good news: the Yellow River embankment was not entirely a dregs project.
They cleaned up the rubbish project and saw the section of the rammed earth Yellow River embankment.
The rammed-earth Yellow River embankment was built very solidly. The earth was repeatedly crushed and became very compact.
Wei Shiming has already asked people to start rebuilding a new concrete Yellow River embankment.
He did not forget his main responsibility, which was not just to discover the problem of the Yellow River embankment.
After encountering a problem, he still has to find a way to solve it.
Song Wenjie, a foreigner from the Ministry of Industry, walked up to Wei Shiming.
"Prime Minister Wei, after our investigation during this period, we found that the Yellow River Embankment's fraud techniques are very sophisticated.
These people know our Ministry of Industry’s inspection process of the Yellow River embankment.
They used expensive reinforced concrete to construct the hard concrete shell outside the Yellow River embankment.
The steel bars and cement used are all products that meet the requirements.
We conduct violent inspections. If the inspectors are not careful, it will be difficult to detect the condition of the Yellow River embankment.
Workers from the General Telegraph Bureau drove piles from the top of the embankment downwards and directly penetrated the Yellow River embankment. Only then did we understand the true situation of this section of the Yellow River embankment.
At first we thought that drilling holes would cause damage to the Yellow River embankment, so we did not choose to use this technology to test the quality of the Yellow River embankment.
After the telegraph office workers drilled the holes, I led a team of experts to inspect the locations of the holes in detail.
It was found that even if holes are drilled in the Yellow River embankment, as long as the holes are filled in time, it will not have much impact on the Yellow River embankment.
If a rat is found in your home, there are likely several litters of rats.
We now have a more convenient detection method. We recommend using this method to quickly detect the quality of the Yellow River embankment.
The prospecting team of the Ministry of Industry has relevant technology, and Bizhong is confident that through this technology, it will take only half a month to complete the inspection of the Yellow River embankment in Shandong. "
When Song Wenjie was inspecting the Yellow River embankment, he thought about what should be done so that they could quickly and accurately obtain the true quality of the Yellow River embankment within a limited time.
He saw telegraph office workers digging holes and discovered problems with the Yellow River embankment.
He also used this section of the Yellow River embankment to verify the harm caused by related technologies to the Yellow River embankment through various digging methods.
The drilling technology is not as serious as they previously expected and will not have a structural impact on the Yellow River embankment.
Song Wenjie decided to quickly test the quality of the Yellow River embankment by drilling holes in it.
It is safer to drill a small hole in the middle of the Yellow River embankment and then fill it with concrete without affecting the entire Yellow River embankment.
When Wei Shiming heard Song Wenjie's report, his depressed mood improved a bit.
The most urgent thing now is to determine which parts of the Yellow River embankment are of acceptable quality and which ones are shoddy projects.
The problematic Yellow River embankment is too long and cannot be rebuilt in a short time.
Wei Shiming could only appeal to His Majesty the Emperor to postpone the new Yellow River water diversion project.
To achieve this goal, faster detection methods than before are needed.
Now that there is a faster detection method, Wei Shiming will definitely support it.
He praised: "Song Wenjie, you did a very good job, I will take credit for you.
We discovered a new way to inspect the Yellow River embankments.
The Shandong section of the Yellow River needs to be inspected in detail.
Song Wenjie, please immediately send people to inspect the Yellow River embankments in Henan.
If the Yellow River embankment there is not up to standard, we will be derelict in our duties and make up for it before it is too late. "
At the same time, Wei Shiming sent people to inspect the Yellow River embankments in Shandong.
They also asked people to conduct spot checks in the Henan area they had just completed.
Once problems are found with the Yellow River embankments in Henan, a comprehensive inspection of the Yellow River embankments in Henan will be carried out.
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Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, acted very quickly.
After he took control of the Jining Prefectural Procuratorate, he immediately arrested Xie Yuan, the contractor of the tofu project.
The censor conducted a surprise trial on this person and obtained important evidence of collusion between officials and businessmen.
Li Yuanzheng took the censor directly to the Yamen of the prefect of Jining Prefecture.
He took dozens of officials, including Mei You, the prefect of Jining, to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for review.
Li Yuanzheng has the will of Emperor Su He. As long as it involves the Yellow River Project, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the right to kill any official first and then report him.
The officials caught by the censor bit each other in order to perform meritorious service.
Li Yuanzheng discovered that the Yellow River embankment was a shoddy project. This was an open secret in Jining Prefecture.
Officials with some status are aware of this situation.
In recent years, Jining Prefecture has regarded the Yellow River Project as a big piece of meat. If local officials have a little power, they will lean on the project to suck blood.
Li Yuanzheng couldn't help but feel ashamed, and all officials involved were immediately taken away for investigation.
In a short period of time, Jining Mansion lost two-thirds of its officials above the sixth rank.
His actions directly led to the paralysis of the Jining government.
Zhang Qinian, the censor of Qiandu, tried Xie Yuan, a black-hearted businessman, and found that there was something complicated behind the matter.
Xie Yuan's ability is definitely not the mastermind behind the scenes, he is just a pawn who was pushed onto the stage.
Zhang Qinian, the censor of Qiandu, passed Xie Yuan, and they also found several important clues.
Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, issued an order, and the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate rushed to various parts of Shandong to arrest officials involved in the scandal.
The large-scale dispatch of censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate directly shocked Shandong officialdom.
Li Shengyun, the governor of Shandong, saw that the officials in Shandong's officialdom were panic-stricken.
Unable to stay in Jinan, he took a train to Jining Prefecture.
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Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, read the file in his hand.
The officials of Jining Prefecture are simply crazy, and they have turned the Yellow River embankment into a shoddy project.
Corrupt local officials cooperated with unscrupulous businessmen and embezzled 7.68 million taels of silver coins from the Yellow River embankment project.
Many of the things these corrupt officials have done are shocking.
Mei You definitely doesn't have this ability. There is a giant behind it, manipulating this matter.
Li Yuanzheng only completed the initial investigation of the case, but he also achieved certain results. He immediately called Wei Shiming.
Wei Shiming's first words when he saw Li Yuanzheng made Li Yuanzheng tense.
"Master Li, the telegraph office has sent a notice that the telegrams between Jining and Beijing will be connected soon.
Has Mr. Li’s case yielded any results?
I predict that His Majesty the Emperor will soon inquire about this matter. "
Li Yuanzheng sighed and said: "The preliminary situation has been investigated clearly, but with the strength of Mei You, the prefect of Jining, he cannot do this big thing.
We all know that there is someone behind Mei You, but we just can't find the key evidence.
Mei You is very tight-lipped. We have already used severe punishment, but he is ready to take everything on his shoulders.
Regarding the situation of the Yellow River embankment, those unscrupulous businessmen and corrupt officials have made everything clear. "
After Li Yuanzheng finished speaking, he handed a map to Wei Shiming.
“The contractors for the Yellow River Embankment are very mixed, and there are many companies with backgrounds who are not greedy for the project money.
Normal private companies engaged in engineering projects only want to earn project fees.
The quality of the Yellow River embankments they built is guaranteed.
The company established in collusion between government and businessmen, and the Yellow River embankment they built were completely shabby projects.
The main purpose is to embezzle funds from the Yellow River Project.
They basically choose to build the most profitable concrete embankment.
Only some concrete is used on the outside of the embankment, and the inside is filled with gravel or sand.
In this section where we discovered the problem, Xie Yuan’s dandy son was responsible.
The silt from the river channel was directly filled into the Yellow River embankment. "
Wei Shiming didn't care about the case, he was more concerned about the total amount of Jining Prefecture's Yellow River Embankment tofu project.
He carefully looked through the information Li Yuanzheng found and found that there were eight sections of the concrete Yellow River embankment with problems, with a total length of up to five kilometers.
Wei Shiming saw that these shoddy projects were all located at the most important locations along the Yellow River in Jining Prefecture.
If these Yellow River embankments collapse, Jining Prefecture will definitely become a land of marsh.
I don’t know how many people will be affected by the floods by then.
Wei Shiming slammed the table angrily and said angrily: "These corrupt officials must be severely punished."
Li Yuanzheng, the censor of the left governor, said in a serious tone: "Don't worry, Mr. Wei, I will definitely deal with these people seriously.
Will the investigation of this case be helpful to your future work? "
Wei Shiming expressed gratitude: "It is of great help to us. With this map, I can have people focus on checking these places without wasting manpower in other places."
Wei Shiming saw that Li Yuanzheng was very busy, so he said goodbye and left, and immediately arranged for people from the Ministry of Industry to check the locations marked on the map in detail.
He walked out of the Jining Prefecture Magistrate's Yamen and saw several carriages surrounded by people, driving towards here.
When Li Shengyun, the governor of Shandong Province, saw the somewhat desolate Jining Magistrate's Office, he muttered: "Jining's officialdom will not be wiped out by the Metropolitan Procuratorate."
When the officials who came with the governor saw this situation, they all felt as if the rabbit was dead and the fox was dead.
Li Shengyun, the governor of Shandong, walked into the Jining Magistrate's Yamen and saw that there were only a small number of officials, barely maintaining the operation of the Yamen.
He saw a somewhat familiar figure, Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu.
He went to the capital to report on his work and met the upright leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Governor Li Shengyun's expression changed drastically. He originally thought he would meet Zhang Qinian, the censor of Qiandu.
Unexpectedly, Li Yuanzheng, the censor of the left governor, was personally responsible for the case this time.
This case was much more serious than he thought.
